tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post7737851172349584289..comments2023-11-10T04:17:00.492-05:00Comments on View From The Porch: Changing times...Tamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comBlogger52125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-18958489303385128552014-04-18T21:15:20.511-04:002014-04-18T21:15:20.511-04:00My Great-Aunt renewed my subscription every Christ...My Great-Aunt renewed my subscription every Christmas. She had back-issues going back to the '20s, some of those were the coolest articles I can ever remember reading. Another favorite issue was the following of a Special Forces A-team in Viet Nam, working with the Montagnards in the Central Highlands. Green Berets in the National Geographic.<br />And as stated up the line here, the WWII issues had ads for tanks, cannon, fighters, and such. I miss the old Cessna ads from the inside front cover.<br />Another ad, in one of the war issues, was from Holland-America, promoting Alaska cruises under the title "Someday this war will be over".Hunterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15665859950228150235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-67235934197122293012014-04-18T18:34:21.538-04:002014-04-18T18:34:21.538-04:00The XC-142 was a wonder. At some point they even g...The XC-142 was a wonder. At some point they even got 4 of them in the air at one time.<br /><br />Because of the nonlinear backlash in the gears that hooked the 4 engines and 5 propellers together, every single part of the aircraft was stimulated at its very own resonant frequency all the time.<br /><br />An interesting study of chaos-ignorant engineering.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-28262655712677128662014-04-18T15:00:27.065-04:002014-04-18T15:00:27.065-04:00NG is post modern liberal crap now, but I highly r...NG is post modern liberal crap now, but I highly recommend the CD collection of every NG issue from 1888 to 2008. Answer the quizzes and it is like a college course about the universe. <br /><br />James E Solbakken<br /><><<br />jsolbakken@aol.com <br />http://www.jpfo.orgJames E Solbakkenhttp://www.jpfo.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-54368156888040261982014-04-18T11:21:01.744-04:002014-04-18T11:21:01.744-04:00I remember that issue well -- a world that had not...I remember that issue well -- a world that had not gone completely insane.Clayton Cramerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03258083387204776812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-89119376698771845472014-04-18T11:11:09.003-04:002014-04-18T11:11:09.003-04:00My father and his father had lifelong subscription...My father and his father had lifelong subscriptions to National Geographic. <br /><br />Regarding how National Geographic has changed: I read a somewhat recent National Geographic article on Argentina, which mentioned that Argentines resented US support of the 1976-83 junta. <br /><br />I was working in Argentina during the junta years, and got an entirely different picture.<br /><br />To his credit, President Carter had spoke out against human rights abuses. The man on the Argentine street was very aware of this. The junta considered Carter's speaking out against its human rights abuses as being "interference" in Argentine affairs. As a result, many Argentines came up to me on the street- a total stranger to them who by what I wore appeared to be a foreigner- to make some denunciation of the junta. They knew that the US government- and by extension US citizens- were not in favor of the junta's abuses. <br /><br />As such, I didn't have much respect for the more recent National Geographic article.<br /><br />YerbaMateUberAllesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-49465690633045302032014-04-18T11:09:54.394-04:002014-04-18T11:09:54.394-04:00Canadian Geographic is worse than that. There has...Canadian Geographic is worse than that. There hasn't been an article in the mag for years now that doesn't have some hook to Global Warming. None. It can be an article on the science of nanotubes being created at a Toronto lab, and there's got to be a paragraph or two on how this or that will relate to Global Warming. Diggsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-23641847099438298152014-04-18T11:02:18.657-04:002014-04-18T11:02:18.657-04:00So, it's not just me. I grew up with a Nation...So, it's not just me. I grew up with a National Geographic collection that went back to 1915 that my parents found on a trash pile. In 1990, I discontinued my own subscription to NG because it had gotten too Lefty for me.Christina M.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-5117547407962141182014-04-18T10:53:55.961-04:002014-04-18T10:53:55.961-04:00Re: Scientific American
I gave up a few years ago ...Re: Scientific American<br />I gave up a few years ago when then dedicated an entire issue to the happy lefty illusion that general intelligence didn't exist, and held up Howard Gardner and Steven Jay Gould as the top researchers in the field. <br /><br />At the rate they were going, they should be on alchemy by now. Kevin R.C. O'Brienhttp://www.weaponsman.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-78559072387324461622014-04-18T10:49:00.317-04:002014-04-18T10:49:00.317-04:00RE: the XC-142. There is a guy who has researched ...RE: the XC-142. There is a guy who has researched all those early V/STOL experiments; none of them was that practical an aircraft, but all were valuable learning tools, and they led to the V-22.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.vstol.org/wheel.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.vstol.org/wheel.htm</a><br /><br />Enjoy.Kevin R.C. O'Brienhttp://www.weaponsman.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-89225173519657295482014-04-18T10:20:34.993-04:002014-04-18T10:20:34.993-04:00My now closed-by- consolidation High School had a ...My now closed-by- consolidation High School had a bound set of NatGeo books- articles from the 40's to the late 60's ..... as a lad in the Reagan era, I read of Matsu and Quemoy, Minoan archeology, life on US Navy subs, and a hundred other subjects, for hours at a time ..... I wonder what happened to that set?<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-49043266547480911792014-04-18T09:50:42.906-04:002014-04-18T09:50:42.906-04:00Same thing happened to Smithsonian magazine, once ...Same thing happened to Smithsonian magazine, once the finest general interest magazine available.<br /><br />I stopped subscribing after several decades when they began to have articles such as the one that described how a national park was created in Cuba "by the will of the people" (Isn't that a line from the Soviet national anthem, and does any body believe that "the people" could get a national park established w/o Fidel's approval?alanstormnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-46641635060512798312014-04-17T23:24:24.892-04:002014-04-17T23:24:24.892-04:00My grandmother had a slew of old National Geograph...My grandmother had a slew of old National Geographics dating back to the 1930's. So when I visited her my parents often found me sprawled out on the floor poring over them, particularly the articles on ancient history, palaeontology/natural history and travels/exploration.<br /><br />The illustrations were amazing and a times a bit terrifying for an 8-year-old: if a painting depicted a ferocious sea battle between the Persians and Greeks, I just knew that I would have been that unlucky guy writhing in the water with a spear run through him!<br /><br />Anyway, I grew up with a great love for history, both human and natural.<br /><br />Sad to see the magazine go all Leftnoid these past 20 years. It's the same with Scientific American, another old fave of mine--doctrinaire leftism, shouting down of non-approved views, and dumbed-down articles.<br />I leaf through them at the barbershop;my barber Frank (who gets them unsolicited) begs me to take them away!<br />effinayrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16195111141879312800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-32181688237132529952014-04-17T22:18:20.832-04:002014-04-17T22:18:20.832-04:00Blog posts like this get me to thinking: when hist...Blog posts like this get me to thinking: when historians finally get around to marking the rise and fall of the USA, where in time will they mark the end?Scott Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12067161332003628237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-10872251234473771252014-04-17T22:14:56.221-04:002014-04-17T22:14:56.221-04:00I have all NatGeo till like 2007 on DVD, I will ha...I have all NatGeo till like 2007 on DVD, I will have to look for this issue tomorrow.R Shacklefordnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-70122176356120593522014-04-17T22:06:15.193-04:002014-04-17T22:06:15.193-04:00I knew a gentleman who asserted to have the most h...I knew a gentleman who asserted to have the most hours in an f-4. He had become a priest after his wife passed. Perhaps at time he had the most hours.<br /><br />This was in Ct. He was good man as far as I knew. God bless him on Good Friday. He tried to help me. Long story short here.<br /><br />MCAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-12188347276944144562014-04-17T22:02:13.702-04:002014-04-17T22:02:13.702-04:00I canceled my 40+ yr subscription. They are still...I canceled my 40+ yr subscription. They are still on the global warming kick. Enough! They won't get me back.Dohrmcnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-87572804627414446602014-04-17T21:52:00.948-04:002014-04-17T21:52:00.948-04:00All these mentions of NatGeo collections going bac...All these mentions of NatGeo collections going back decades put me in mind of this classic from The Journal of Irreproducible Results: <br />http://www.jir.com/geographic.html<br />As for me, I gave up on it when they began regularly celebrating the "ancient" and "unique" culture of the "Palestinians." werewifenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-61559029673059521782014-04-17T20:42:19.438-04:002014-04-17T20:42:19.438-04:00My teenage daughter wanted a NatGeo subscription f...My teenage daughter wanted a NatGeo subscription for her birthday some years ago.<br /><br />Bearing in mind that she was in the gullible teenage years where communism sounds good, I had some concerns. To my relief, she specifically asked me NOT to renew.<br /><br />Since then, NatGeo has spent MANY times what little they could have made on a single year subscription trying to convince her to re-subscribe. <br /><br />I like to take that as indication that their readership is falling, as it should.Sendariushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13286039362709773644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-2400480629544597762014-04-17T19:27:07.469-04:002014-04-17T19:27:07.469-04:00Their "resident explorer" (huh?) has jus...Their "resident explorer" (huh?) has just compared hunting to apartheid and the Holocaust in a Tweet.<br /><br />I will not throw away my pre WWII ones, but...Steve Bodiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14434597061701369867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-18890826632516485742014-04-17T16:35:10.544-04:002014-04-17T16:35:10.544-04:00Ah yes; Dickie Chappelle. RIP.Ah yes; Dickie Chappelle. RIP.Boat Guynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-12899603491861071952014-04-17T12:09:19.438-04:002014-04-17T12:09:19.438-04:00Haven't read a NG in years, but perusing Popul...Haven't read a NG in years, but perusing Popular Mechanics and Popular Science from the 50s-60s' online is a hoot.rickn8orhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16911803300343351338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-29768129211579371012014-04-17T11:45:30.488-04:002014-04-17T11:45:30.488-04:00I remember the articles on the early Vietnam War. ...I remember the articles on the early Vietnam War. Dickie Chapelle was NatGeo's combat photographer.Comrade Misfithttp://eb-misfit.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-31894560007171256522014-04-17T11:29:38.015-04:002014-04-17T11:29:38.015-04:00Tam, you're pretty good at pointing out what a...Tam, you're pretty good at pointing out what ails our country. This is just another symptom of the same disease.<br /><br />My wife thought it <em>très amusant</em> when I flipped my lid and began a "rage against the machine" tirade in the living room the first time I heard the term "NatGeo".<br /><br />Old school, it's what I am. As for Lemay? All three kids attended "Curtis Lemay Elementary" at one point in time. Yup, SAC-trained killer, right here.<br /><br />Thanks for the memories!OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-65070851551632576702014-04-17T11:16:03.381-04:002014-04-17T11:16:03.381-04:00I've a complete NG collection going back to Ja...I've a complete NG collection going back to Jan. 1950 (less 3 issues). Also most of WWII editions. Oldest is Feb. 1908.<br /><br />I doubt I'll renew the membership I've had since 1968 (a gift from Grandma). Their latest article on coal is a veritable Greenpeace pamphlet. And their last map of the USA required SEVENTEEN! corrections in the next issue. Speaking of maps; NG issued 6 a year. Now it's 2 or 3. <br />The ads for cars are a litany of past grandeur: Pierce-Arrow "Ask a man who owns own."; Packard; Lincoln; Cadillac ...<br />Auto accessories such as Weed tyre-chains for when it RAINS!<br />And the train ads! Men and women in suits. Ladies wearing gloves. Children seen but clearly not heard.<br /><br />I miss the country I grew up in.Stretchnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-78078103268686959602014-04-17T11:12:59.874-04:002014-04-17T11:12:59.874-04:00!BAM! Knockout punch.!BAM! Knockout punch.NotClauswitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14358707844087117280noreply@blogger.com